by Redazione , published on 29/09/2024
Categories: Archeology / Disclaimer
Excitement and curiosity on Facebook because of a post by the MiC archeology officer Santino Alessandro Cugno, who announced in real time and in a very unusual way the discovery of a fragment of an ancient statue, possibly a head of Apollo.
A Facebook post from Santino Alessandro Cugnoan archaeological employee of the Ministry of Culture has caused a stir in the last few hours: he reported practically live from the discovery of Head of an ancient statue during the excavations of the Basilica of Santo Stefano/Villa degli Anicii on the Via Latina in Rome. According to the archaeologist, it could be an Apollo head, “of high craftsmanship,” as he puts it, perhaps from the 1st century.
Century AD. Comments from users were published under Cugno’s post, some of whom even put forward hypotheses about the identification of the object (some believe that it is Bacchus and not Apollo based on the hairstyle): Cugno obviously postpones any conclusion until an advanced phase of the search or at least at the time when the sculpture resurfaced extracted and purified “in the hope of finding more fragments,” he writes in the comments) and “thoroughly examined,” as the archaeologist himself emphasizes.
A very unusual announcement, because it is not easy to find archaeologists working for the ministry and their discoveries in real time communicate, as in this case (usually one waits at least for the first investigations, while others are even more strict: the discoveries are only announced after the investigations), but enough to cause a stir and of course arouse a lot of curiosity about this artifact, that has resurfaced from history.
The newly discovered head. Photo by Santino Alessandro Cugno
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